Paderborn v Borussia Dortmund: Bundesliga – live! | Football

Jadon Sancho starts for Dortmund for the first time since spring break. It looks as if, in the absence of Erling Haaland, Thorgan Hazard will play as a duplicitious nine.

SC Paderborn 07 (3-5-2) Zingerle; Strohdiek, Hunemeier, Schonlau; Drager, Antwi-Adjei, Vasiliadis, Holtmann, Collins; Mamba, Srbeny.
Substitutes: Huth, Jans, Ritter, Proger, Sabiri, Evans, Michel, Zolinski, Jastrzembski.

Borussia Dortmund (3-4-2-1) Burki; Piszczek, Hummels, Akanji; Hakimi, Delaney, Can, Guerreiro; Sancho, Brandt; Hazard.
Substitutes: Hitz, Balerdi, Morey, Schmelzer, Gotze, Witsel, Reyna, Fuhrich, Raschl.

Hello. That low squeak you’ve been hearing since Tuesday night is the air coming out of Borussia Dortmund’s season. The 1-0 defeat to Bayern Munich ended their title hopes at a stroke, and now all they have to play for is the usual Champions League place. It’s quite a comedown for a team that has spent much of the the season dreaming of a first Championship since 2012. If they hadn’t seen such riches, they could live with being poor.

The fight for those Champions League places is seriously tight. If Gladbach beat Union Berlin in the early game – they lead 3-1 after 70 minutes – there will be only two points separating Dortmund in second and Leipzig in fifth. Dortmund have a pretty good run-in, though, with three of their last six games against teams in the bottom four.

That starts with today’s match away to the bottom club Paderborn, a game Dortmund will expect to win even without the injured Erling Haaland. The match should tell us how badly they have been affected by that Bayern defeat. If it does impact upon their morale and focus, they might not even make the top four.

Kick off 5pm BST, 6pm CEST.